Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Christianstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Christianstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21179, -6.88900
- SMR number
- KD017-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Cropmark of possible ditch-barrow (approx. diam. 12m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the ditch-barrow based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy
Date of upload: 20 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.